Review and discussion questions:
Question: 1 In the modern world most individuals work in organizations. Describe how it can affect people's sense of responsibility and the morality of their conduct?
Question: 2 How does the Dalkan Shield example fit Hannah Arendi's point about the "rule by nobody"? Explain what Jackali means when he writes that middle managers become "potential 'fall guys' when things go wrong"?
Question: 3 Describe Stanley Milgram's famous experiment. What are its most significant implications?
Question: 4 What four knowledge conditions are pre supported by the standard theories of moral decision making? Are the authors correct to assert that "In an organizational setting one or more of the four knowledge condition typically fails at a critical juncture"?
Question: 5 What do the authors mean by the problem of "deeds without doers"? What is their general approch to this problem, and what are the three rival approaches that they put aside?
Question: 6 What is the point of the authors drink drive analogy?
Question: 7 According to the authors, what five obligations do individuals inside an organization have? Do you agree? Do you think that the authors demand too much of the individual?